The Babington Arms, Derby - pub details
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Address: 11-13 Babington Lane, Derby, Derbyshire, DE1 1TA [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 951 1000 (ref 11214) - calls cost 10p per minute plus network extras
Derby (0.6 miles), Peartree (1.6 miles), Spondon (3.2 miles)
Chain: Wetherspoons
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> Current user rating: 7.0/10 (rated by 65 users)
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user reviews of the Babington Arms, Derby
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| Was has this cr*phole got a 7?? This McWhetherspoon is falling apart, the furniture has broken in areas and has been like this for years!! The ale choice is big, but every cask ale tastes average/poor. How can they consistently serve it so poor? Even the lagers don't taste right. What is going on? Only for the price conscious, don't go in anymore, Derby has much better choice. ChineseForeverMore - 27 Dec 2011 22:02 |
| very good Weatherspoons - just shows what can be done by this chain with the correct management. mattyd6672 - 5 Jun 2011 07:53 |
| Overall a good Wetherspoon pub. Beer was very good indeed (Thornbridge and Teme Valley tried) with enough serving staff and top up without asking. Beer choice was also very varied at about 14, most being small brewery offerings rather than the usual suspects. Food was the usual Wetherspoon menu - some of it pretty basic but a good price. They were doing fine mid afternoon on a Tuesday in January - a good cross section of customers. richhol - 25 Jan 2011 18:12 |
| My first visit to Derby so started the crawl in here. Totally impressed with the beer choice - bigger even than the legendary "Welly" back in Brum. Tried a couple of pints - both in excellent condition. Can't remember what they were as the crawl went on into the wee small hours and the memory is not what it was. Suffice it to say that it's a bit better than the average JDW, and would definitely be on the list for any future visit to the city. scoobybooze - 21 Jun 2010 16:46 |
| The second establishment to be visited on a recent Derby scooping crawl, and a place which has been regularly raved about by fellow beer tickers. Arrived to find a solid selection of 15 ales available, 10 of which I required; needless to say, I was mush impressed. Unfortunately I became less impressed as we worked our way through the beers we needed ... to save time we bought four halves for the first round, all of which were at different stages of haziness and one of which had to be returned as it simply had not dropped. The second round of six halves fared slightly better, with only two of the beers being hazy, but nevertheless I would expect better from a pub enjoying a reputation such as "The Babs" holds amongst ale afficionados. The pub also suffers from a near-terminal dose of SIS ('Spoons Interior Syndrome'), with dingy lighting and dark wood everywhere, eliciting a rather shady, seedy atmosphere - not helped by the usual JDW core clientele / Care in the Community-types sat around us gumming their way through the "food" served in here. All in all, a typical Wetherspoons raised above the mire by a keen focus on Real Ale but let down (at least on this visit) by condition of said ale. For the record, we sampled the following - a fair testament to the cask focus: Newby Wyke - 2nd Refit, 5.2% Falstaff - Siren, 4.2% Falstaff - The hind of Ceryneia, 4.7% Cottage - Phantom, 5.0% North Cotswold - Shagweaver, 4.5% Burton Bridge - By George, 4.3% Oldershaw - Blonde Volupta, 5.0% Magpie - Snowdrop, 4.3% Zululand - Zulu Blonde, 4.5% Wentworth - St. George, 4.5% All_Hail_The_Ale - 4 May 2010 13:12 |
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